You know, the threat from the pandemic, we spoke often and we continue to about how that combines with underlying conditions to pose a great risk to patients.

We know that the research shows very clearly that there is a correlation between uninsurance or underinsurance and poor patient outcomes.

More than 40 percent of Americans who contracted coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic were either uninsured or underinsured.

Count me a little bit perplexed by the last 45 seconds of what we just heard from our colleague across the aisle...

the Pell Grant increase of $400, the highest in over a decade, is really going to be very advantageous to students at HBCUs

Maryland, D.C., Virginia, worked with Congress, as we know, to establish the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission in 2017 after the predecessor Safety Oversight Agency was found to be deficient.

I think many in the public would be outraged if they had any clear understanding that this is where their investments are being directed.

I am just getting really tired of the head fake. Oil and gas companies have spent millions of dollars on advertising to promote the false message that they are already an integral part of the solution to the climate crisis.

There is a giant head fake, a collective head fake going on by the fossil fuel industry.

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As we rally around the idea of decentralizing, it is important to have you flagging some of the new obstacles that can present.

This bill became law earlier this year.

Like all of us, I hear from constituents about the need to fund and advance research on a variety of diseases.

So you have anticipated, you anticipate a little bit the next question I was going to ask...

Obviously this is a very delicate and pretty complicated topic, this one of scheduling fentanyl, because there are a lot of obstacles to navigate or issues to address.

Not once, not a single time, not one of those 986 instances of lobbying mentions the Paris Agreement.

The fossil fuel executives that are appearing before us today claim that their companies support reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, a watershed international environmental treaty, as we know.

The answer is one. That amounts to 0.2 percent of your Federal lobbying during that time.

I wanted to talk to you a little bit about this issue.

We think of states who lead... as our partners and not our adversaries.

The Lautenberg Act, the upgraded version of TSCA, contained very positive reforms.

We need to make a change with respect to that pause preemption.

I certainly appreciate that it is on Congress to fix this problem of the pause preemption.

I am certainly a long supporter of upgrading and modernizing our chemical safety laws to provide these needed protections to Americans.